410 Verf. 31. L4' ExpaEtion upan the Book of JO B. Chap. 36. forthhis lightening; which canesveer this word in the text, he fpreadeth it.Buc becaufe in the next chrpterElihm fpeakes purpofe- ly of the lightening, therefore I Ihall not flay upon that fence here-,bur decline ir. Rather take light in thecommon no ion; He fpreadeth his light, that is, the light of the ,time: hick is eminently called Gods Lighr, upon it,chat is, upon the cloud fpoken of in °.he former vede,and ft, the two parts of this verfe,yeild us a deícrip; ion(as I conceive) of the weather -changes made by God. When we have had much rain and flormes, God can prefently fpread his light; upon the cloud, that is, caufe the light andheat of the Sun to conquer the clouds and feaster them. And (he alto) covereth the bottom ofthe Sea. That is, by and by, he makes it very darkby the gathering of thick clouds, even as dark as the bottom of the -Sea, whither the light cannot come, 1 `.dices n2arìs or dark to the bottom of the Sea. The ó1 ig nal is, the root; of the fu r profurdif- Sea, that is, the lowefI parts of the Sea, which we fi .i t:ahrtly tines, csurrsrtes. tranflate, the bottom ofthe Sea. Some explicate the tvhole veufe, Ilefpreads his light upon the face of the whsleheavens, and(reads the waters over theJcean, fo that no bottom can befeen, fcarcely found. Mr. Broughton.,. by the roots of the Sea, unde:llands the earth. Another faial, 'he makes mention of the roots of the Seel, . becaufe the waters of the Sea, are as it were the roots of the Clouds, they chiefly fupplying the matter of which they are made. Vapours drawn from the waters of the Sea, bythe heat of the Sun, become Clouds , and thefe Clouds cover borh Earth and Sea,far andnear. Thus 'cis matter of wonder to fee fuch great and fudden changes in the air ; that the fame Sun with its beatnes fhould exhale thofe vapours which are condenCed into Clouds, and that foot, after, chofe Sun-beams fhould fcatcer and diflolve thofe Clou' ; or that now the heavens fhould be Co masked with Clouds s to make all dark, and in a little fpace, all return to its former brighrnefs and beaur.y. He fpeadeth his Light. JVha'r is there in the world that is not Gods ? Here he calleth Light his, Hence note God laves to entitle himfeif to Light inan efpecialntanner. (Nat. 5, 44.) Flo caufeth hen Sun to fhine,'6.e. The Moon is
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